Month: September 2017

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This is the second part in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. It describes at length the significant influence of a profound book from Kashmir, Yoga Vasishtha, over Indian philosophical and scientific thought.
Another book from Kashmir which has

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This is the first essay in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. It throws light on the early history of the region and the expertise of the Kashmiris in the areas of grammar, music and dance.
This is the

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Now, the importance of the Ramayana in Indian civilization has been emphasized by many religious leaders, public thinkers through the ages, and what is the Ramayana? It is a manual of morals; it is to instruct a people in right conduct and right values. It is a national code. Ram

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Then soon after independence, this is not known to many of us, the Hindu public made a demand for the construction of a grand temple at Ayodhya and this representation was made to the UP government and the UP government forwarded to the district authorities in Ayodhya and they said

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We have two European accounts, the first is written by William Finch who came to Ayodhya within 80 years of the demolition of the mandir and William Finch says, that you know, Hindus come over here they go to the Sarayu river, take a dip over there and then Brahmins

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So, now very early on we find scenes of the Ramayana depicted in art. The first art depiction of the Ramayana is a terracotta of the second century BCE. It shows Ravan carrying away Sita and Sita is shown throwing down her ornaments, hoping that that will help somebody to

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Now, what is the evidence that we have, literary evidence of the temple being destroyed at Ayodhya. There are a large number of histories that were written in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Arabic, Persian and lastly in Urdu, not one of these history says that Babri Masjid was

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In 1992, Babri Masjid was demolished. When the Masjid was demolished, from the walls of the Masjid, an inscription 5 feet by 2 feet, fell to the ground. We call this inscription the Vishnu Hari inscription This inscription, it was giving the history of the temple. So the Allahabad High

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Now, this is very interesting because every stage of the conflict and the context between the Mahants of the Janamsthaan and the superintendent of Babri Masjid is recorded in the Faizabad district court. All these papers are there and when the Ayodhya, when the Allahabad court was hearing this case

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The British, they prepared revenue reports, that means every area, what is the revenue due? Who has to pay for that revenue? That was the systematic report done for every area. For Babri Masjid the first settlement report was done in 1861. And after that the settlement report is done,

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In the first part of this series, it is explained how the first Western philologists sowed the seeds for the denigration of Indian texts and culture.
Europe’s task was to separate Indians from their “decadent” culture so that they could get connected to the “superior”

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Macaulay’s famous minute on education (1835) led to the establishment of a colonialist system of education that is still in force.
It replaced the traditional system of village schools, which created near-universal literacy, to a system that led to school dropouts in large numbers.
This is

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Then the left historians, they carried out a campaign against the ASI on this issue also. Now, I want to conclude my talk by giving you some idea of what these left historians said in court because what they said in court was so atrocious that it is really amazing

J. Sai Deepak delivered a talk at the Press Club of India. The talk was organized by the Srijan Foundation on the topic: Freeing Hindu temples from government control.
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First of all I would like to thank Srijan Foundation and therefore I will have to thank Abhinav Prakash Singh and Rahul

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According to the report dated 28th November, 1858, an FIR has been filed by the Thanedaar (Policeman) of Awadh, which states that, 25 Nihang Sikhs have entered the Babri Masjid and are performing Hawan and other religious rituals there. Following which, a complaint has been filed by Superintendent of Babri

Srijan Foundation organised a talk on Ayodhya Ram Mandir issue, kicking of a series of talks and interviews on this topic at INTACH, Lodhi Estate. The speaker, Dr. Meenakshi Jain is Ph.D from Delhi Univeristy. She specialises in Cultural Studies. She is presently a member of the Governing Council, ICHR. Here, in

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The deity of the Sri Chakra is known to us from the Brahmaṇḍa Puraṇa as Lalita Tripurasundari, the playful transcendent beauty of the three cities.
The Sri Chakra is an iconic representation of the deepest intuitions of the Vedas. It represents both the recursive structure of

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The important role that logic has enjoyed in the Indian cultural area is due to belief in the overarching Vedic system that knowledge is of two kinds: objective and subjective.
All objective knowledge is governed by logic, whereas the knowledge related to the experiencing subject is

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Logic is one of the six darsanas, which are the classical schools of Indian philosophy.
This is the first of a two-part essay, which presents an overview of the Indian tradition of logic. The Indian tradition of logic reached its peak in the Navya Nyaya school of

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This paper reviewed some elements of Indian astronomy in Greece; also, a study of art has provided evidence of the Indic element in the Graeco-Roman world.
We believe that ancient Eurasia had considerable trade and interaction within its regions. This interaction was a complex

Among the Indic religions, it is Buddhism that spread all over the world, especially in South East Asia, China and Japan. Its influence is visible even in European countries. Buddhism was very much accepted in India also. But as the time passed by, its influence among the mass waned. Yet

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The continuing analysis of the astronomical references in Hindu texts imply that astronomical ideas developed in India in stages.
These stages can be seen in the different layers of the Vedic texts, the Brahmanas and the Vedanga Jyotisa.
Astronomers were interested in information related to eclipses, supernovae

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The Yazidis were denounced as infidels by al-Qaeda in Iraq who sanctioned their indiscriminate killing. The Islamic State began a campaign of destroying Yazidi cities and villages in 2014.
The Yazidis claim to have originated in India, and the veneration of the peacock may be a

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Line by line translation of a herald announcing arrival of Shivāji Maharaj. Listen to the herald first in the video. And then read a basic translation attempted.
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महाराज | Great King
गणपति | Lord of Shiva’s Ganas, i.e. the powers attending upon Mahadevā
गजपति | Lord of elephants,

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Ancient Indian temples are some of the greatest artistic achievements of mankind, celebrated the world over, but not enough has been done to understand their history.
Searching through the uncertainty and confusion of the present, knowledge of the past provides illumination, which is why history is

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Recently, I have been ridiculed and dismissed as a 'sanghi', as a Zionist and as an Islamophobe for arguing in my writings that Islamic clerics and Urdu journalists engender Islamist ideas and trap innocent Muslim youths in the web of jihadism. So, to defend me

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Was the Greek scientific and philosophical tradition inspired by the Indian school of logic?
Greek and Persian historians say that Alexander was the intermediary who brought Indian logic to the Greeks and it was under this influence that the Greek scientific and philosophical tradition emerged. Modern

Srijan Foundation organised a talk on Ayodhya Ram Mandir issue, kicking of a series of talks and interviews on this topic at INTACH, Lodhi Estate.
The speaker, Dr. Meenakshi Jain is Ph.D from Delhi Univeristy. She specialises in Cultural Studies. She is presently a member of the Governing Council, ICHR. Here is

Srijan Foundation organised a talk on Ayodhya Ram Mandir issue, kicking of a series of talks and interviews on this topic at INTACH, Lodhi Estate.
The speaker, Dr. Meenakshi Jain is Ph.D from Delhi Univeristy. She specialises in Cultural Studies. She is presently a member of the Governing Council, ICHR. Here is

Bharat Gupt, a former Associate Professor in English at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theater theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist. Here he talks about the wrong ideas that are paraded in the garb of secularism.
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Bharat

Dr.J.K.Bajaj shares religious demographic data of India of last one hundred years. He speaks about how religious demography plays a defining role in shaping destiny of country. He explains how growth rate of population belonging to various religious members have larger impact on culture of country.
He claimed that partition of

Koenraad Elst delivered a talk at the Press Club of India. The talk was organized by the Srijan Foundation on the topic 'Ayodhya Ram temple'. This is the transcript of Elst's Speech.
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Again Mr. chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for your outstanding patients as you are all still here.

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Does your name appear on an Indus Valley seal? Read to find out.
Back in the 1970s, my family lived in southern California. The infamous smog there often caused school closings in summer. I can recall walking home through the caustic, murky air, choking, eyes streaming

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It is time for India to export its old temples and faiths to the West. Saraswati ought to be the logical goddess of that haven of knowledge, the Ivy League institutions, and Laxmi to Wall Street, and Lord Shiva for the creative-destructive forces of the

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Our understanding of castes must change, and castes themselves need to be less inward-looking than what they are now. The logical thing to do is to let castes find their own way out of formal Hinduism so that the greater pluralism

Absolutely must-read excerpts from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's book titled "Pakistan or the Partition of India".
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In the controversy that went on between Mr. Jinnah and the Congress in the year 1938, Mr. Jinnah was asked to disclose his demands which he refused to do. But these demands have come to

Excepts from "Pakistan or the Partition of India" by BR Ambedkar.
In particular they should note that there is a difference between Macht Politic [Power politics] and Gravamin Politic [in which the main strategy is to gain power by manufacturing grievances] ; that there is a difference between Communitas Communitatum and

J. Sai Deepak delivered a talk at the Press Club of India. The talk was organized by the Srijan Foundation on the topic: Freeing Hindu temples from government control.
Here is part of the talk where Sai Deepak Ji explain the Sabarimala issue regarding the entry of Young Woman.
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And I have

Identification of Unicorn (Indus-Saraswati Civilization)

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